Word: votes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting held after the debate, President Dobyns announced that the challenge which the club had sent to the Columbia Union for a joint debate, to be held this winter, was accepted. By vote of the house he appointed a committee consisting of H. B. Huntington '97, H. G. Gray '97, and P. G. Garleton '99 to have full charge of the arrangements for the debate. This debate is to be a strictly inter-club debate, and not in any sense one between the two universities...
...Proper.I. Annual elections have grave defects. A. Their frequency presents dangers. (1) The work must be left to professional politicians and bosses. (a) Few of the best men can actively participate. (2) Constantly recurring elections breed neglect of issues. (a) In off-years half the registered voters do not vote in Massachusetts. (b) On the average only 67 per cent. vote in Massachusetts. (c) In representative biennial election states 80 per cent, and over vote. (E. H. Haskell, Biennial Elections, p. 13.) B. They are expensive. (1) $148,000 is spent on a single election. (Mr. Winn, Boston Traveller...
...Biennial elections are an improvement. A. Being less frequent they present advantages. (1) Professional politicians will find employment only at greater intervals. (2) They lead to an increased vote. (a) This has been the result in other states. B. They are economical. (1) They save the expense of one election every two years. (2) They save $100,000 in shortening legislative term. (3) They do away with the unnecessary length of session C. Biennials tend to better legislation. (1) Legislators are more carefully elected. (2) Legislators will be better trained. (3) Increased term tends to do away with hasty legislation...
...will Massachusetts vote? At great expense the Boston Sunday Journal has canvassed the state. Read it tomorrow...
...been voted by the Faculty and confirmed by vote of the Corporation to confer the following undergraduate scholarships for the year...